08-24-2017, 06:31 PM | #31 |
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08-24-2017, 07:41 PM | #32 | |
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Though while we are on the Whites, there could be all sorts of MacGuffins gotten from them. Perhaps one monk has an icon that scares away demons? Or Shanghai in general. One of the local rabbis knows how to make golems? And of course look at all those Tongs. Maybe one of them knows the Touch of Death? And anything can turn up the interior including things with supernatural properties. Hey! Every red-blooded white man(sarcasm mode for anyone who needs that) "knows" that you never can tell about these "Inscrutable Orientals". Of course English and Americans have no weird Macguffins about them. They are not enigmatic like all the other ethnicities. They just have square-jawed two-fisted heroes who can beat people up without bruising their fists and never run out of ammunition. Oh and all their women are beautiful and obsessed with the hero, I forgot that. Sarcasm aside, Shanghai is a good place to put any mysterious thing you want in a World War 2 setting. There is day to day espionage and crime galore. Plus if you want a Cliffhangers, or even a fantastical element, it is not hard to put it in.
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08-24-2017, 08:26 PM | #33 | |
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08-28-2017, 04:43 AM | #34 | |
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For instance, here's a summary of Petr G. Heyskanen's military career: http://www.grwar.ru/persons/persons.html?id=9435 I found him just by looking up Петр Хейсканен, which sounded realistically appropriate. There is a prince Алексей Чегодаев-Саконский who seems to have had something to do with the Czarist Navy, so maybe Alexis was a relative. As to Taracusio, that's a complete oddball and I don't see any vaguely possible Russian-sounding name. |
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08-29-2017, 09:02 PM | #35 |
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Thanks. This seems to be the rabbit hole that just keeps giving plot ideas.
The war train Zaamurets was the behemoth of the 1910s and 1920s. Heavily armored. Bristling with guns. Everywhere it went, Zaamurets was the biggest, baddest thing around. Not many foes could touch it. If you possessed this train, you ruled the rails of early 20th-century Eurasia. Even more stunning, this awesome, self-propelled war machine went on a journey across the world. The years-long voyage carried the train through Ukraine, Russia and China — illustrating the chaos and uncertainty of the era. The leviathan served in Tsarist, Bolshevik, Czech, White Russian and several Chinese armies. https://warisboring.com/a-remarkable...cross-eurasia/ |
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